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INTRODUCTION, 


THE substance of this pamphlet was published in a 
series of editorials in the Baltimore Southern Meth- 
odist, of Baltimore, Md., fully answering every charge 
made by Mr. Watson, some of them being the old 
stock objections urged against foreign missions, while 
others were new, bearing the Watsonian stamp. 
Though Mr. Watson attempted a reply in his magazine, 
he evidently, finding himself unable to break the force 
of the incontestable facts produced, left them unan- 
swered and even unchallenged and wandered off into 
new fields. He thus put upon these facts his own esti- 
mate of their impregnability. 

The author of this pamphlet was led to show up the 
fallacies of Mr. Watson’s statements against foreign 
missions because those darts are directed at the heart of 
the Church in attacking one of her supreme enter- 
prises; because his arguments are so plausibly con- 
structed, with scripture quoted in their support, that 
they are likely to be regarded as unanswerable by those 
who have no knowledge of the true conditions ; because 
the book, on account of the prominence of the writer, 
has had a wide circulation in some parts of our terri- 
tory in the South, and the harm it has done has not 
been of a negligible quantity; and because answering 
his statements will give us an opportunity of bringing 
some of the latest and best missionary information to 
the attention of our readers and Mr. Watson. 


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4 Thomas E, Watson “Exposed.” 


Mr. Watson makes the general charge that the 
Church’s whole foreign missionary system is funda- 
mentally wrong and founded upon a perversion of the 
words of Christ. He says: “J heartily favor foreign 
missions. But I contend that the present system of 
doing the work is unscriptural, unwise, unpatriotic, 
and unnatural. What is the duty which Christendom 
owes to the heathen? In the simplest words I venture 
to express it thus: To go into all the world and preach 
Christ and him crucified. In every instance Christ 
limited his instructions so that his full meaning can 
be expressed in our word preach. A fair paraphrase 
of the language of Jesus is this: ‘As I have explained 
my gospel to you, do you go and explain it to all the 
world. I have in person given my commands to you; 
go you and tell all the world what those commands 
are. That is all there is to it—absolutely all. That 
much is divine, direct from Christ. Anything more 
than that is human, not from Christ.” 

Mr. Watson does not hesitate to use such strong 
expressions, in speaking of foreign missions as oper- 
ated by the Church to-day, as a “betrayal of Christ,” 
a “crime,” a “farce,” and to label its promoters with 
such names as “fanatics,” “Pharisees,” etc.,-and to 
affirm that “the burden of proof is upon the fanatics 
who have fastened to us a system which hires a hea- 
then to call himself Christian, and which tempts the 
needy of pagan lands to profess conversion by offering 
relief from physical suffering.” 

Now, if Mr, Watson’s conclusions are correct, and 
he says he has reached them after a wide range of 
reading and much study, the great leaders of modern 


Thomas E. Watson “Exposed.” 5 


missionary thought and activity were and are either 
fools or knaves, either insufferably stupid or con- 
sciously wicked. We are not prepared to believe that 
either is true, to hang on either horn of Mr. Watson’s 
dilemma, but we do believe that there is a possibility of 
Mr. Watson’s reasoning from false premises, so that 
his conclusions are unsound; and this we hope to prove 
before we are through with this subject. 

The general charge will be covered in particular by 
the answers to the first three minor charges, and in 
general by the answers to the others as well. 


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CONTENTS. 


TORT RMEETLON, Pte, WOM ee eo io se ok le ee ca 


CHARGE I, 
That the Church Has Misinterpreted the Great Commis- 
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Cuarce II. 


That Education as Carried on by the Church in Japan and 
China, in View of the Great Illiteracy in Our Own 

’ Country, Is Not Only Mad Fanaticism, but Is “a 
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Cuarc_E III. 


That Medical Missions Are an Instrumentality for Making 


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CuarceE IV. 

That the Missionaries Live Lives of Luxury and Ease.... 
CHARGE V. 

That There Are Grave Doubts as to Whether or Not Any 

Heathen Has Ever Been Genuinely Converted........ 
CuarceE VI, 


That the “Beautiful, Refining, Inspiring Code” of Pagan 
Morality Produces Fruits as Good as Those of Chris- 
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CuarceE VII. 


That Protestantism Shows an Intolerant Spirit in Estab- 
lishing and Supporting Missions in Papal Lands...... 
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CHARGE VILLI. PAGE. 


That the Church’s Fanatical Policy Is Destructive to Vital 
Interests at Home, and That the Missionaries Should 
Be Recalled Gye bee be eta So. eee see 46 


CHARGE IX. 


That the Indemnity Claims for Diamonds and Costly 
Clothing by the Protestant Missionaries after the 
Boxer Rebellion Were So Great as to Provoke Much 
Hostile-Comment .( 20.0500... aes. +s lence aa 51 


CHARGE X. 


That Wastefulness, Gluttony, and Wine-Drinking Marked 
the Laymen’s Missionary Banquet in New York...... 53 


THOMAS E. WATSON “EXPOSED.” 


——____ 


CHARGE I. 


THAT THE CHuRcH Has MISINTERPRETED THE GREAT 
CoMMISSION, 


As Mr. Watson puts so much value upon Christ’s 
words, we shall consider first the importance and 
meaning of the Great Commission. 

The Great Commission was not spoken until after 
the resurrection. Christ knew that many things that 
he spoke to his disciples during his natural life would 
be forgotten by them, but he uttered the Great Com- 
mission under circumstances so impressive and awe- 
inspiring that he knew, though they might forget all 
other things, they would not forget this. Three days 
after the crucifixion, when the disciples were gathered 
together in an upper room at Jerusalem behind barred 
doors for fear of the Jews, suddenly, without a bar 
being withdrawn or a door being unbolted, Jesus 
stood in the midst of them. They were affrighted, 
. thinking they had seen a spirit; but he assuaged their 
fears, demonstrated his identity, and impressed upon 
their hearts by this specterlike visit his command con- 
cerning missions, so that it matters not whatever else 
he may have said on that memorable occasion, this was 
made so prominent that when the evangelists came to 
write of the visit it was uppermost in their minds. 
Mark, Luke, and John each reports ee the 

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10 Thomas E. Watson “Exposed.” 


great command. Then some days later, in obedience 
to Christ’s instructions, the disciples and, according to 
Paul, five hundred others assembled on a mountain in 
Galilee, and again Christ appeared from the spirit 
world. What command did he impress upon them by 
this second specterlike appearance? The same mis- 
sionary command. This time he said: “All authority 
hath been given unto me in heaven and on earth. Go 
ye therefore, and make disciples of all the nations, bap- 
tizing them into the name of the Father and of the 
Son and of the Holy Spirit: teaching them to observe 
all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and lo, 
I am with you always, even unto the end of the 
world.” But this is not all. After the forty days had 
elapsed since the resurrection he gathered his disciples 
on Mount Olivet and, before ascending to his Father, 
again addressed them on this subject, saying: “But ye 
shall receive power, when the Holy Ghost is come upon 
you: and ye shall be my witnesses both in Jerusalem, 
and in all Judea and Samaria, and unto the uttermost 
part of the earth.’ And with these words trembling 
upon his lips, the last he ever uttered to man before 
going to his Father, he was received up into the heav- 
ens, and a cloud hid him from mortal view. 

In addition to this, some things that Jesus said are 
spoken of by one or two of the evangelists and passed 
over by the others in silence; but the Great Commis- 
sion is emphasized by Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, 
and by Peter and Paul in every epistle that they wrote 
and by their lives which they gave to this cause, as 
were given the lives of the other apostles; so that it 
is not only an important command, but, humanly 


Thomas E, Watson “Exposed.” II 


speaking, it is the most important command that was 
ever promulgated by the Son of God. It was for that 
to which the command looks that his sacrificial death 
was given on the cross, and the glorious results of our 
obedience of it shall cause him to see the travail of his 
soul and be satisfied. 

The supreme importance of his command is fur- 
ther accentuated by the fact that Christ’s three years’ 
ministry and teaching on earth led up to the Great 
Commission. On two other occasions our Lord for- 
mally commissioned his apostles. First the twelve 
were sent forth on a trial mission that was limited both 
as to area, not extending beyond the boundaries of 
Galilee, and as to objects, confining itself to the lost 
sheep of the house of Israel. Later the seventy dis- 
ciples were chosen and sent apparently to itinerate in 
Galilee, with instructions similar to those given to the 
twelve. The instructions in both cases may be called 
the lesser commissions in comparison with the Great 
Commission, uttered after the resurrection. From all 
the foregoing it will be noted that nothing can be more 
binding upon the heart and conscience of a follower of 
Christ than the Great Commission, including his for- 
eign missionary command. We have endeavored to 
put this part of the subject clearly before the reader 
for reasons which will be apparent later in the discus- 
sion. 

Now, as to the meaning of the Great Commission, 
we would ask: What is the significance of the word 
“gospel,” which is expressed or implied in the several 
forms of the commission as given by the four evan- 
gelists? In its historic and broader sense, “gospel” 


12 Thomas E,. Watson “Exposed.” 


means the whole God-story, covering Christ’s three- 
fold function—preaching the gospel, teaching the ethic, 
and healing the sick. In its original and more limited 
sense it confines itself to Christ’s message concerning 
the Fatherhood of God, the inclusiveness and spirit- 
uality of the kingdom, and God’s gracious provision 
for the redemption of man from sin through the 
atonement wrought by his Son. But even though we 
accept the word “gospel” as it is found in the Great 
Commission in its more restricted sense, certainly the 
Church is not out of harmony with the spirit of Christ 
in following his example as far as it can in the other 
two parts of his function, teaching and healing, as it 
was found, as Christ knew, that they are most effective 
ways of making disciples out of men. So the Church 
to-day is trying to carry out the Great Commission in 
the spirit of her Lord, whose work is summarized in 
Matthew in these words: “Jesus went about in all Gali- 
lee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the 
gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of dis- 
ease and all manner of sickness among the people.” 
On account of these three forms of activity manifested 
by Christ, he is known as the Great Teacher, the Great 
Physician, and the Incomparable Preacher. Thor- 
waldsen’s piece of sculpture in heroic size, represent- 
ing Christ as the “Divine Healer,’ with matchless 
compassion upon his face, at the Johns Hopkins Hos- 
pital, in Baltimore, is a benediction to the suffering 
humanity that goes there, for it silently but strikingly 
reminds it of the Source of all healing, life, and love. 
Mr. Watson wants to know why Paul and the other 
apostles did not teach and heal if Christ desired it. 


Thomas E. Watson “Exposed.” 13 


They did in some measure, but conditions then pre- 
cluded their teaching and healing as those functions 
are ministered by the Church to-day. The introduction 
of Christianity, revolutionary in its character and hos- 
tile to the existing order, demanded unceasing evan- 
gelizing. The disciples were driven by the enemies of 
Christianity from place to place with but little oppor- 
tunity to plant the truth, much less to look after its 
cultivation and maturity. They never had a strong 
home base from which to foster agencies looking to 
solidifying their work and making it permanent, but 
they laid the foundation for Christianity on which the 
noble structure is being reared to-day. 

The modern Church, therefore, in the spirit of Christ 
and his apostles, is meeting the conditions of the age 
in which it exists and is building up the kingdom of 
God on earth by means of a propaganda which in- 
cludes Christian education and remedial treatment of 
the sick, which is not only a contribution to the abun- 
dant life that Jesus brought to men, but a powerful 
auxiliary in bringing them into spiritual relations with 
himself; and this propaganda is being used by the 
Church not only in our own country but in the Orient 
with marvelous efficiency, as will be further shown in. 
answers to other charges. 


CHARGE II. 


THAT EDUCATION AS CARRIED ON BY THE CHURCH IN 
JAPAN AND CHINA, IN VIEW OF THE GREAT 
ILLITERACY IN OuR Own Country, Is Not 
OnLy Map FanatTicisM, BuT Is “A 
CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY.” 


In combating Mr. Watson’s statement as to the 
mission schools of the Orient, we give a sample of 
his specious reasoning concerning them. On page 55 
of his book he says (the italics being his) : 


Here is Japan—progressive, victorious, powerful, rich. She 
has offered her children “splendid facilities’ [quoting from 
Go Forward, a missionary journal formerly published by our 
Church] for education. Yet the Methodist Church, South, is 
required to pour money into Japan to compete with the Japa- 
nese government in giving a secular schooling to Japanese 
children. 

Could fanaticism be madder? Where is the scripture for 
this unnatural and impossible task? How can the people of 
this country be expected to educate their own children and 
bear at the same time the expense of secular education to 
the hundreds of millions of heathen children whose own gov- 
ernments are offering them “splendid facilities” in their own 
public schools? 

When I reveal the facts to our people, in order that they 
may give with their eyes open, I am savagely denounced. Why 
so? What wrong have I done? Is it a sin to let in the light? 
Is it a crime to publish the truth? 


It will be easily seen from the foregoing by any 
one who has knowledge of the facts that Mr. Watson 
is reasoning from false premises, and consequently his | 


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Thomas E. Watson “Exposed.” 15 


conclusions have no foundation upon which to stand. 
The statement that the Church is competing with the 
Japanese government in giving a secular schooling to 
Japanese children, which he repeats in italics on page 
41, applying it to the Chinese government also, shows 
that Mr. Watson’s education has been sadly neglected 
as to Church matters. He would make it appear that 
the Church was in the business of secular education 
for the sake of education itself, competing with gOv- 
ernments, etc., of which nothing could be more untrue. 
The education which the Church is giving, both in this 
country and in the Orient, as this sort of education is 
a part of the propaganda of our religion everywhere, 
is always qualified by the word “Christian.” Its aim 
and end 1s to develop the pupil not only imtellectually 
but morally and spiritually, not only to teach him to 
think the deepest and grandest of all thinking, but to 
bring him into saving relations with Christ and make 
out of him a constructive force of the highest efficiency 
im building up God’s kingdom. For the accomplish- 
ment of this result both the Christian character of the 
teacher and the course of instruction receive the most 
careful consideration by the Church. The State, not 
aiming at this result, demands neither Christian char- 
acter on the part of the teacher nor Christian instruc- 
tion in his teaching. The Church fosters a system of 
education that is the handmaid of religion and is never 
of a purely secular character, and thus it occupies a 
field that is peculiarly its own, into which the State 
does not enter. In “The Why and How of Foreign 
Missions” Dr. Arthur J. Brown says: “All mission 


schools are uncompromisingly Christian. The Bible is 
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16 Thomas E, Watson “Exposed.” 


the chief textbook, Jesus is the Great Teacher, prayer 
is the atmosphere.” Japan has thoroughly tested the 
fidelity of this position. When some time since she 
issued an order that no religious instruction should be 
given in schools approved by the government, thus 
placing a serious handicap on mission schools, as all 
avenues of preferment lead from schools having gov- 
ernment recognition, those schools did not yield an 
inch, but said: “We cannot use missionary funds to 
give the young people of Asia a purely secular educa- 
tion. We are here for Christ’s sake, and his only.” 
Some of the mission schools closed, others dwindled in 
their attendance from hundreds to dozens. Japan later 
rescinded her order, but not until she had been con- 
vinced of the unyielding purpose and the inflexible 
character of the Christian schools. Such schools are 
largely the hope of the triumph of Christianity in the 
Orient ; for while it is always more or less difficult to 
break down by direct attack the wall of inherited prej- 
udices and social, business, and religious associations 
of the adult and induce him to abandon the faith of his 
ancestors, the mission school is quietly undermining 
that wall, for character is taken at a plastic period and 
shaped for the future. The old German proverb is 
apropos here: “What you would put into the life of a 
nation, put into its schools.” 


Dr. Sun Yat Sen the Product of the Mission School. 


But are these schools making good? Are they jus- 
tifying the wisdom of the Church in establishing them? 
Let us look at some of the facts. We can give but a 
few on account of the limits of our space, but amply 


Thomas E. Watson “Exposed.” 17 


sufficient to show that there can be but one answer to 
the question. Hon. T. H. Yun, the princely Korean 
who is now suffering imprisonment for righteousness’ 
sake, and Dr. Sun Yat Sen, whom a leading American 
Review speaks of as the most illustrious living Chinese 
to-day, to whom more credit is due for the dynamic 
changes which have taken place in China in the past 
few years than to any other man, are both the products 
of Christian schools. The first school for girls found- 
ed by the Chinese was in Shanghai, and a Christian, 
Miss Alice Allen, the daughter of our late Dr. Young 
J. Allen, was selected as superintendent. This is not 
surprising, as the great present educational movement 
of China is traceable to the missionaries. Twenty 
years ago the Chinese government opened a school to 
teach foreign learning and put in charge of it Dr. W. 
A. P. Martin, who went to China as a missionary, 
which was followed by the Opening of five other 
schools of high grade, most of them universities, all 
of which were committed to the hands of men who 
went to the Orient as missionaries. To-day there are 
forty thousand schools in China established by the 
government for teaching the learning of the Occident, 
and in all the schools of the province of Chi-li the 
pupils have been ordered by the viceroy to study the 
Bible. China has not been slow to recognize her great 
obligation to the Christian religion for this and other 
blessings, as is evidenced by the fine tribute the Pres- 
ident of the republic, though a Confucian himself, re- 
cently paid to Christianity. Through its schools Chris- 
tianity is reaching the very heart of China. The late 
Dr. Anderson, who was President of our school at 


18 Thomas E. Watson “Exposed.” 


Soochow, and who from many years of living among 
the Chinese had a first-hand knowledge of their life and 
character, a man of large influence among them, made 
this significant statement: “The very fact that the 
education which we are carrying into China is a Chris- 
tian education only makes it in a real sense more ac- 
ceptable to the Chinaman. Not that he understands 
Christianity, but that he understands the necessity of 
moral and religious training. Any religion is better 
than no religion. It is impossible to-day to revive 
Confucianism. The only religion in China to-day that 
has a future is that of the Lord Jesus Christ”’ This 
school is attended by sons of leading Chinese mer- 
chants and officials, who make no objection to their 
becoming Christians, on the ground that Western 
progress and civilization center in Christianity. 

As in China, so in other mission lands Christian 
schools are striking at the root of sin, ignorance, and 
superstition, making a successful appeal to the young 
and laying the foundation for the kingdom of Christ 
in those countries. A leading Scottish missionary of 
many years’ experience has said that nowadays no 
bona fide idolator is to be found among university 
men. : | 

Within the past few years between one and two 
hundred students have been led to dedicate their lives 
to Christian service at each of the following institu- 
tions of learning: Peking University, Shantung Union 
College, and the College of Assuit, Egypt. And even 
the Imperial University of Japan, through Christian 
influences, is turning out some of its graduates for the 
ministry. 


Thomas E, Watson “Exposed.” 19 


Mission Schools in Turkey. 


As to Turkey, to which the eyes of the whole world 
are now turned, Dr. Samuel B. Capen, President of 
the Laymen’s Missionary Movement of this country, 
was approached not long since by a diplomat and 
high government official of that land, who said that he 
wanted Dr. Capen and his associates to go on putting 
in schools and colleges, for, as he remarked, “there is 
going to be a break-up in Turkey before long, and 
you gentlemen then, with the work you have done, will 
be on top.” This is a confirmation of what an officer 
of the Sultan said a few years ago: “What Dr. Ham- 
lin is silently doing with his Robert College and the 
American missionary with his theological seminaries 
and schools and books all the diplomats of Europe 
united cannot overbalance.” Bulgaria, a Christian 
country, was created by the graduates of Robert Col- 
lege. The few facts stated of the many that could be 
recited can give no adequate conception to our readers 
of the tremendous and imperishable work that is being 
done in the twenty-nine thousand mission schools, with 
more than a million and a quarter of students, in shap- 
ing forces that will make for the religious destinies of 
millions of people. 

Without going farther, we are willing to rest our 
case, so far as mission schools are concerned and their 
beneficent fruits, at which Mr. Watson scouts, with any 
fair-minded jury that Mr. Watson may select, to judge 
whether or not Watson’s premises are not false and 
his conclusions thoroughly unreliable. 

Mr. Watson, in a tone of injured innocence, says: 


20 Thomas E. Watson “Exposed.” 


“When I reveal the facts to our people, in order that 
they may give with their eyes open, I am savagely 
denounced. Why so? What wrong have I done? Is 
it a sin to let in the light? Is it a crime to publish the 
truth?” If Mr. Watson will publish the facts, and all 
of the facts, the Church will do all it can to circulate 
his literature. Nothing so helps the progress of mis- 
sionary work as for all the possible light to be thrown 
upon it. As to what wrong Mr. Watson has done, 
we shall leave that matter to his own conscience. It 
is no sin to let in the light, but Mr. Watson has been 
letting in the dark. It is no crime to publish the 
truth, but how about a half truth conveying a meaning 
exactly opposite to the truth? We shall leave Mr. 
Watson to muse over these things while we take up 
another item. 


CHARGE III. 


Tuat MepicaL Missions ARE AN INSTRUMENTALITY 
FOR MAKING HypocriITEs Out oF HEATHEN. 


MEDICAL missions are contributing their part to this 
Christian kingdom-building. As we have previously 
stated, Christ himself set the example of ministering 
unto the sick. Twenty-four of his thirty-six recorded 
miracles were of physical healing, and there were many 
others unrecorded, for the Bible tells us that “all they 
that had any sick . . . brought them unto him; 
and he laid his hands on every one of them, and healed 
them.” So our hearts beat in unison with the great 
heart of Christ when we do not “pass by on the other 
side” those countless sufferers that abound in non- 
Christian lands or shut our ears to their cries of agony. 
Apart from the pain and suffering that naturally come, 
pages could be devoted to the unnecessary agony, 
physical deformity, and death as the result of the ig- 
norance and superstition of the Oriental quacks who 
minister to the sick. The medical missionary, with his 
scientific knowledge of medicine and surgery, is win- 
ning his way into the heart of the Orient by his skillful 
treatment of its diseases and accidents; and wherever 
he goes he carries with him the religion of Christ, so 
that heathendom has come to associate all lofty things 
with Christ and to learn the truth, which some people 
in this country are slow in learning, that the gospel 
was intended to save men both for this life and for 
the life to come, that Christ came to establish a king- 


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22 Thomas E. Watson “Exposed.” 


dom on earth as well as a kingdom. in heaven. Dr, W. 
H. Park, who has charge of the Soochow Hospital, 
where many thousands of Chinese receive treatment 
annually, has a medical class from which students are 
graduated after five years of study, nearly all of whom 
become Christians, and who are beginning to fill the 
responsible positions in China, One is a physician in a 
large railroad district, and another is a surgeon in the 
navy. Other hospitals are doing a similar work in 
China and in other parts of the Orient, and are exert- 
ing an untold influence for Christianity through these 
native Christian physicians who are part of their prod- 
ucts. 


CHARGE IV. 


TuHat THE Missionaries Live Lives or Luxury aNnp 
EASE. 


Mr. Watson says: “Our foreign consuls have no 
better jobs than our foreign missionaries, whose toil 
is no longer arduous and whose salary is not only 
good, but regular. . . . Dearly beloved, don’t 
weep any more over the hard life of the foreign mis- 
sionary. The chances are that he is having a much 
better time than yourself. He wears up-to-date habil- 
iments, lives on appetizing viands, has comfortable and 
roomy quarters, smokes good cigars when he feels like 
it, and has a corking good time generally.” Then Mr. 
Watson speaks of their having elegant homes in the 
cities for winter and beautiful mountain homes for the 
long vacation in summer. 

From this rhetorical picture, so brilliant in color, 
that Mr. Watson has painted, one would be led to 
think that, from a material point of view, there are 
few more desirable callings than that of a foreign 
missionary ; but let us put the naked truth over against 
Mr. Watson’s rhetoric and see how the case stands. 
When Mr. Watson says that foreign consuls have no 
better jobs than our foreign missionaries and then 
points out the creature comforts of the missionaries, 
the only logical meaning Mr. Watson’s language con- 
veys is that the jobs of the consuls are no better from 
a material consideration. But is this true? We have 
before us a copy of the “Diplomatic and Consular 

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24 Thomas E. Watson “Exposed.” 


Service of the United States,’ which we secured from 
the State Department of our government. From this 
we learn that the average salaries of our consuls in 
China and Japan (Korea included), the Asiatic coun- 
tries in which we have missionaries, are $3,822 for 
China and $3,750 for Japan, while the last report of 
our Board of Missions states that the allowance of 
missionaries in those lands is, for married men, 
$1,000, with an allowance of $100 for each child, to 
be increased to $150 at ten years of age; for single 
missionaries, $600. Each ten years of service entitles 
the addition of $100 to married and $50 to single mis- 
sionaries. The allowance, of course, varies with the 
different fields, as it takes more to live in some fields 
than in others. The average salary of foreign mis- 
sionaries, according to “The Why and How of Foreign 
Missions,” is about $550 for a single missionary and 
$1,100 for a married one, while the smallest salary 
Uncle Sam pays to his consuls anywhere is $2,000, 
and the salaries in foreign countries run from this 
sum to $5,000. Thus Mr. Watson’s first rhetorical 
vaporing dissolves before the steady rays of facts that 
cannot be gainsaid, or, to go back to our original fig- 
ure, his picture becomes colorless. 

Mr. Watson makes another astonishing statement, 
and its very unreasonableness involves its own con- 
demnation. He says: “Now, when you consider that 
most of the unmarried ladies enjoy salaries of from 
$600 to $750, and that the men get from $1,100 to 
$1,500 each, you can begin to understand why these 
positions are so eagerly sought for.’”’ Even if his 
figures were exact, can you conceive of gifted, college- 


Thomas E,. Watson “Exposed.” 25 


trained men with families and highly educated women 
eagerly seeking to sacrifice so many things that men 
call dear and go to the ends of the earth for a salary 
of $750 or $1,500? It is as true now as when Macau- 
lay wrote, and what he wrote applies measurably to 
other foreign countries, that “all English labor in 
India, from the labor of the governor-general and the 
commander in chief down to that of a groom or a 
watchmaker, must be paid for at a higher rate than 
at home. No man will be banished, and banished to 
the torrid zone, for nothing.” It is well known that 
business men who have commercial relations with Asja 
and Africa have to pay three times the salaries that 
are paid in America in order to induce their clerks 
and agents to stay abroad. One of the latter is re- 
ported to have said that he “would rather hang on to 
a lamp post in the United States than to have an 
estate and a palace amid the heat and dust and snakes 
and dirt and fevers and fleas of a typical Oriental 
country.” Such discomforts do not belong to all 
mission lands, but that they belong to many of them 
is lamentably true. And yet Mr. Watson would have 
us believe that men and women are eagerly seeking to 
be missionaries for the meager support they get. Few. 
things could be more preposterous. If money had 
been the dominating motive, as it seems to be with 
some people, in the lives of such men as Dr. Henry 
K. Jessup, the famous Syrian missionary, a Moder- 
ator of the Presbyterian General Assembly, Dr. H. 
H. Lowry, President of Peking University, Dr. John 
G. Kerr, the celebrated surgeon, the late Dr. Young 
J. Allen, formerly President of the Anglo-Chinese 


26 Thomas E. Watson “Exposed.” 


University, and many other distinguished mission- 
aries who could have commanded large salaries at 
home, why have they remained on the foreign field, 
receiving stich comparatively paltry sums as from 
$1,000 to $1,200 a year, with house rent? 

We can conceive of but one motive influencing men 
and women to the foreign field, and that is such deep 
consecration to God as to put one’s all absolutely upon 
the altar and to sacrifice the dearest things for the 
sake of Jesus and the dying heathen. The missionary 
is deaf to all things but Christ’s command. We who 
are enjoying the comforts of home and the blessings 
of a Christian civilization know little of the priva- 
tions and sufferings of those noble men and women 
that are holding up Christ in foreign lands. In our 
ignorance we may speak lightly of them. How true is 
the old maxim of school days, “He jests at scars who 
never felt a wound”! 

Among the hardships of the missionaries, one is sep- 
aration from their children. Conditions are sometimes 
necessary for the father and mother to leave their chil- 
dren in the homeland and be absent from them, ten 
thousand miles away, for years. Think; is there any 
material compensation that would pay you for this 
heartbreaking experience? If Mr. Watson thinks 
this is a trifling thing, let him try it for a few months; 
and if he has the heart we think he has, he will be 
seeking the mourner’s bench, asking forgiveness for 
the unkind things he has said about those who are 
making such sacrifices for Christ’s sake. Then there 
are uncongenial surroundings which weigh them down 
—a sense of the lack of companionships that so enrich 


Thomas E, Watson “Exposed.” a7 


life in our land and of loneliness which must be experi- 
enced to get some idea of the depression which accom- 
panies it; unhealthful climatic conditions, makinz in- 
roads upon their vitality and sapping away their physi- 
cal strength; distress that comes from the presence of 
so much physical suffering that the missionaries are un- 
able to relieve. Sir William Hunter said that there 
were hundreds of millions of people in India who nev- 
er knew the sensation of a full stomach. An equally 
large number in China live so near to starvation that a 
drought or flood brings about appalling suffering. All 
over Asia the missionaries see disease and bodily in- 
jury so unattended or misattended as to produce a 
resultant condition as dreadful as it is intolerable. 

Another is heartsickness in coming in contact with 
the most debasing and loathsome forms of sin of which 
St. Paul gives a true picture in the first chapter of Ro- 
mans, no little of which is practiced openly. 

Still another is the awful desolation attendant upon 
the burying of loved ones away from friends and kin- 
dred, in an alien land, in the midst of most distressing 
conditions. “Six weeks after my arrival in China,” a 
missionary writes, “my wife, though but shortly before 
in America adjudged physically sound, died after only 
a week’s illness. The memories of the cold, bleak, 
January morning when we laid her in that lonely grave 
upon the hillside will not soon fade from my mind. 
What a mournful little procession it was that passed 
through the streets of hostile Tsi-nan-fu on that day! 
With but half a dozen of my new-found friends, I fol- 
lowed the plain coffin borne by coolies, whose jargon 
seemed all the more unsympathetic because I did not 


28 Thomas E. Watson “Exposed.” 


understand it. O the unspeakable desolation that 
sweeps over a little community such as many of our 
missions are when death invades its feeble ranks, and 
the stifled wail that reéchoes from America three 
months later!” The missionary’s task, Brother Wat- 
son, is no “pink-tea” affair, but one requiring the deep- 
est devotion and largest heroism of which men are ca- 
pable. 

What we have written covers the life of the average 
missionary. Of course it is possible to find a few 
wealthy missionaries, as it is to find a few wealthy 
preachers in this country; but in neither case did they 
get their wealth from their salaries. The very fact 
that there are a few wealthy missionaries accentuates 
the depths of their consecration in their submitting 
their lives to such conditions. 

In answer to a letter we wrote to Rev. J. T. 
Myers, who went to Japan from the Baltimore Confer- 
ence nineteen years ago, and whose intelligence, con- 
secration, integrity, and fidelity are known to hundreds 
of our people, we have some illuminating facts that 
sweep away the last vestige of Mr. Watson’s charges. 
Mr. and Mrs. Myers were in this country on a fur- 
lough last year. When they left in the fall for a seven 
years’ stay in Japan, they tore themselves from two 
of their children who remained in America. Brother 
Myers’s letter is of such value in covering this ground 
with first-hand information and is so worthy of pres- 
ervation that we publish all of it relating to this sub- 
ject. It answers in detail questions suggested by Mr. 
Watson’s statements, which we asked Brother Myers. 
His letter is as follows: 


Thomas E. Watson “Exposed.” 29 


1. “Is the job of a foreign missionary as good as that of 
a United States Consul?” 

I do not know how good a consul’s job is; but if it is not 
better than that of the missionary in the matter of a living, 
then Uncle Sam is inexcusably stingy. 

2. “What is the purchasing power of a dollar in the Ori- 
ent?” 

In many things it is very great. In the things an American 
there must have for a living, about 75 cents to 80 cents. We 
must buy many things from abroad. Now Japan is out for a 
protective tariff, and duties are high on all those articles com- 
monly considered necessaries by an American—we will say an 
American mechanic or clerk. Duties on foodstuffs and cloth- 
ing range from twenty to forty per cent. Add cost of freight 
from America, packing, and insurance, and you will see that 
it is not possible to get them as cheaply as at home. Here is 
a list of comparative prices from actual experience: 


In Japan, In Baltimore. 
DRE AL So: a,c do xc, caesar SOU OSCT Ce ene oes tues tases 1oc. gal. 
esr ,25) PDI. s « sctanie ate int OAL A ketal! Wiccan $5.50-$7.00 bbl. 
aU 09 ee oe Me GOnaleis URAL oa ose ss oss As 5c. lb 
Se Se eee rE Per Leu MiMi MAITIS eee oy lego «weeks 30c. Ib. 
BCC. A), . oo Sea a « Lael gs He ar ee ae 11c.-14¢c, Ib. 
EGO 1c c ee aha dt % PLATA DACOINis at Wes. os 8s ses BAC, 
eee 1s vee cen Palette POW UCh cc . ccs otis ac win 25's 45c. Ib. 
CHE As Saar s T SETETAT Ve RS Ties apie yaa 4¥4c. cake 
On ee i Bfshs Co 8 SS aN ge aire 50c. 
URS (Mpa dee tat em tae es 6) a, TCORIIIG et a TTR Ua ott pleteate : $1.00 
SACL AT Sg et en ARR Daily Paper..... Balto. Sun, $3.00 yr. 
ey had Orcas coe Daeess Home| QUAL. 6 csc un ¢s, 4: $1.50 yr. 
Sp RU mati day evening FOS. <<a. wes: $1.50 yr. 
PO i haces. « states (s00U WoiliEeC OUNCES cesses. $25.00-$30.00 
OO ae now so 3 ae Common our Clothes,...... $10.00-$15.00 
POO DA. SO ses vas Le os nie ASE GOOEY aT Sige ae ee $3.50-$4.00 


Irish potatoes, beef where available, chickens, and eggs are 
a little cheaper in Japan. So rice and fish are cheaper. Wom- 
en’s and children’s clothing and supplies are much higher in 
Japan. The missionary must buy all textbooks for his chil- 


30 Thomas E. Watson “Exposed.” 


dren’s schooling and pay heavy tuition where he can find 
schools to which they may go. These things are free in Bal- 
timore. When children are of high-school age they must 
come to the United States, generally to a boarding school. 
The missionary must lead the way in liberal giving to native 
Church work and in acts of mercy and help to many who are 
provided for by the State in our country. Now,-the only 
possible way in which one can live as cheaply in Japan as in 
the United States is to adopt the native manner of living. In 
fact, the editor of the Japan Chronicle, himself an anti-reli- 
gionist, has declared Japan to be the most expensive country 
in the world for the living of the white man. To live in native 
style seemed at first to me to be the best way to reach the 
hearts of the people. No other possible reason would justify 
the risk to health and even to life of many whose habits of 
diet and living had become a part of their very being. For 
the home Church to insist on it for reasons of economy would 
be inexcusably niggardly. As a matter of fact, a few years’ 
experience changed my own mind. The natives rather de- 
spise than admire the white man who does it. All mission- 
aries are agreed that it would not aid the work, and few 


boards of missions would allow their missionaries to take 


the risk. Hence the missionary can choose only such things of 
native products as are cheaper, paying from twenty-five to 
thirty-five per cent more for three-fourths of the necessaries 
of his daily life. 

3. “How many servants do you keep ?” 

We kept two. On our return we shall probably keep one. 
The two cost us $12.25 per month, they providing their own 
food from that amount. To use the time of an American 
woman in Japan—one who is obliged to school her own chil- 
dren at home, and who is always a valuable missionary work- 
er—in cooking, washing, scrubbing, etc., when for a total cost 
of $3 per week she can in large measure be relieved of the 
heavy work, if not of the responsibility, of the house, thus 
sparing her time for the more valuable work, would be well- 
nigh criminal in any board or missionary which would re- 
quire it. 


Lhomas E. Watson “Exposed.” 31 


4. “Where is your summer home located ?” 

We have no summer home. We have remained at home 
in the interior of Japan every summer for the past five years. 
The same is true of nearly all our missionaries. This was 
not because such vacation was not needed, but only because 
we could not afford to go away. In some missions, not of 
our Church, an allowance of $25 is made for vacation ex- 
penses. In some other missions the annual meeting of the 
mission is held where it is possible to have a summer outing, 
and expense of travel to the meeting is provided. Then, 
where the missionary can afford it, often at a slight added ex- 
pense, he can stay for the hot season. The summer vacation of 
many engaged in school work, whether for Church or govern- 
ment, is spent in this way. In our own mission no such 
allowance of any kind is received. Perhaps half of our work- 
ers in schools get away. Not more than one or two of those 
engaged in evangelistic work have such summering. Some- 
times health reasons demand it at any cost, even the risk of 
debt or of cruel economy for the rest of the year. Then 
about nine out of ten missionaries are college graduates. 
These in some cases have private means or have families at 
home able to help to such outings. So there are a number of 
missionaries who get together in the summer, certainly not 
half in the case of our mission. If you could see little Ameri- 
can children and American mothers back in some interior parts 
of the Orient, often for many months seeing no other white 
women or white children, you would say every mission board 
should provide a summer outing for every missionary living 
in the Orient. 

5. “Do you smoke good cigars?” 

Very, very few missionaries in Japan smoke tobacco. This 
partly because of the intense antipathy of the native Church 
to the use of tobacco, as well as for reasons of economy and 
conscience, 

6. “Has the missionary ‘a corking good time’ ?” 

Not to my knowledge. This not by way of complaint, 
either. For the having of what men consider a good time I 
had rather be a preacher on any charge I have seen in the 


32 Thomas E. Watson “Exposed.” 


United States than to be a missionary to Japan, which is 
perhaps in some respects the most attractive mission field—and 
lest I be misunderstood by some, permit me to say that I 
would rather be a missionary to Japan than to any other 
country in the world. 

7. “What salary do you receive?” 

Our Board says it pays an allowance, not a salary—that 
is, it estimates the cost of living and pays accordingly. The 
scale of salary allowance is: For single missionaries, $600 a 
year; married missionaries, $1,000 a year. Add $50 or $100 
for every ten years of service. Also, where there are children, 
add $100 to $150 a year up to eighteen years of age for boys 
and twenty for girls. After nineteen years we get $1,100, plus 
$s00 for four children, making $1,600 for a family of six, one 
being at home in school. The Board found that on account 
of the heavy expense of medical bills some missionaries who 
should have consulted a physician were not able to do so. 
This was not a wise risk of the costly missionary machine 
they had sent abroad, so they now allow actually incurred 
medical bills to missionaries on the field, not to exceed four 
per cent of salary allowance. House rent is also allowed, but 
no furniture is provided. 

8. “How have you invested the large amount of money you 
have received as a missionary?” 

The only resources we have are the cash value of two life 
insurance policies I have been carrying at a cost for premiums 
of $1.36 a week. This value is perhaps $1,030. Besides this, 
after nineteen happy years in Japan, in spite of many a cruel 
struggle to make tongue and buckle meet, we shall go back 
in three weeks or less with a cash deficit of at least $200. 

Well, I believe this answers all your questions. I have 
written a long letter, but have told you the truth, and all the 
truth, and nothing but the truth—more of it, in fact, than some 
folks are entitled to know. But in view of the fact that you 
are engaged in the defense of the great cause of missions, I 
feel justified in authorizing you to publish all that I have 
written, for giving the widest publicity to the things concerning 
our foreign mission work cannot but greatly help the cause. 


CHARGE. V. 


THAT THERE ARE GRAVE DOUBTS AS TO WHETHER OR 
Not Any HEATHEN Has Ever BEEN GEN- 
UINELY CONVERTED. 


Mr. Watson says: “Who is it that knows to a 
certainty that a single Oriental has ever become a sin- 
cere Christian?’ In another place he asks the ques- 
tion: “Why is it that practically every Oriental ‘con- 
vert’ who has made any effort to proselyte his own 
people has to be paid for it?’ And then he adds the 
following comment: “This fact of itself is enough to 
prove to every unbiased mind that we are not Chris- 
tianizing the Chinese and the Hindus. WE ARE 
SIMPLY BRIBING THEM TO ACT THE HYP- 
OCRITE. Even their children, who are glad enough 
to get the education we give them, do not take to our 
religion.” He insinuates that the professed converts 
were such for revenue—‘“rice converts,’’ as some others 
of Mr. Watson’s persuasion call them—and that they 
were really hypocrites at heart. 

But what of the native Christians, the genuineness 
of whose conversion Mr. Watson has grave doubts? 
How can we determine the reality of their conversion? 
By the same test that we use to determine the differ- 
ence between genuine and spurious Christians in our 
own country—by their fruits. “Ye shall know them 
by their fruits” is the word of inspiration. Let us 
see how native converts have deported themselves in 
the midst of the most trying conditions, pees they 

33) 


34 Thomas E. Watson “Exposed.” 


recanted and revealed their hypocrisy or the weakness 
of their character, or stood firm in the presence of tor- 
ture and death for Christ’s sake, or, what is not less 
significant, have lived consecrated Christian lives, in- 
volving large sacrifices and exhibiting the fruits of the 
Spirit year after year, breathing an atmosphere hos- 
tile to the spirit of Christianity. The latter sort of 
life is often more difficult to live than to lay down 
one’s life for righteousness’ sake. But multitudes of 
native converts have done both. It has taken many 
books to chronicle the heroism of native converts; and 
if Mr. Watson and his friends honestly want to know 
about this phase of the subject, we shall consider it 
commendable missionary work to recommend a num- 
ber of such publications for their enlightenment. We 
have but space enough in the present chapter to touch 
upon this large subject, but that will be sufficient to 
show the utter fallacy of Mr. Watson’s assertion and 
to substantiate our position. 

That authoritative book, “The Why and How of 
Foreign Missions,” in speaking of native converts, 
says: “Many . . . have endured bitter persecu- 
tion. Some have been disowned by their families, 
deprived of their property, scourged, imprisoned, and 
killed. If the story of thousands of them could be 
written, it would be one of the most inspiring records 
in the development of the Church of God. Making 
all due allowance for those who have been actuated 
by improper motives or who have shown themselves 
lazy or incompetent, the fact remains that multitudes 
have been loyal, humble, and loving servants of God.” 
Of course there have been unworthy men among the 


Thomas E, Watson “Exposed.” 35 


heathen who have gotten into the Church, but that 
condition is not peculiar to heathendom. Unworthy 
men are found everywhere in our own country—in 
the Church, in Freemasonry, in Odd Fellowship, in 
Pythian circles, in society, among clergymen, physi- 
cians, merchants, manufacturers, statesmen, and even 
among lawyers, authors, and editors—but that does 
not discount the large number of true, worthy men; it 
rather accentuates their real value by contrast. 

But we quote from John R. Mott, one of the world’s 
missionary leaders, who has made a study of the mis- 
sion fields on the fields themselves: “One of the un- 
mistakable evidences of the work of the Spirit of God 
is to be found in the way in which Christians endure 
trial and persecution. For example, the most marked 
characteristic of the Chinese Christians is their stead- 
fastness, their willingness to endure hardship and even 
death for the sake of Christ. There never has been 
a time in the history of missions in China when the 
profession of Christianity did not entail persecution.” 
Mr. Mott then recounts the trials and persecutions of 
native Christians in Moslem lands, which is the fate 
of native Christians in a greater or less degree in all 
non-Christian countries; but the fidelity of the great 
majority of them is a silent but eloquent testimony to 
the genuineness of their conversion. The Hon. Charles 
, Denby, for thirteen years American Minister at Peking, 
has reminded the world that during the Boxer up- 
rising “the province of Chi-li furnished 6,200 Chi- 
nese who remained true to their faith in spite of dan- 
ger, suffering, and impending death. It is said that 
15,000 converts were killed during the riots, and not 


36 Thomas E. Watson “Exposed.” 


as many as two per cent of them apostatized.” What 
becomes of Mr. Watson’s insinuation in the presence 
of these facts? 

Next, what about the question he asks, “Why is it 
that practically every Oriental ‘convert’ who has made 
any effort to proselyte his own people has been paid 
for it’? He then proceeds to reach the conclusion, 
from what he assumes is the answer, that we are not 
Christianizing the Chinese and the Hindus, but brib- 
ing them to act the hypocrite. This is another sample 
of Mr. Watson’s illogical reasoning—assuming the 
truth of a statement and drawing a conclusion from, it 
which is as false as his premise. By such reasoning 
it can be proved that a trip can be taken to Mars in 
an automobile, or that the moon is composed of a 
substance known as green cheese. The unreliability 
of Mr. Watson’s assumption becomes apparent when 
facts are applied to it. From the latest missionary 
statistics we cull the following: There are 2,644,170 
communicants in the foreign field, besides several mil- 
lion adherents, the term being used in a more restricted 
sense than in our country; 111,862 native helpers of 
all kinds to assist the 24,092 missionaries, or only 
about one out of every twenty-three native Christians 
receive any pay for service. Making the most liberal 
allowance for others who are employed as servants or 
who receive assistance in schools, the number who are 
aided in any way by the foreigner is relatively insig- 
nificant. Incontestable facts show that the great body 
of native Christians have no financial motive for con-. 
fessing Christ, and Mr. Watson’s statement that “prac- 


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+. 33 


tically every Oriental ‘convert,’”’ etc., is without foun- 
dation, and his conclusion falls with his premise. 

Before leaving this part of the subject it might not 
be amiss to throw in for good measure another fact 
helping to prove the genuineness of the religion of the 
native converts, and that is, while the total income from 
the home field for foreign missions last year was over 
thirty millions, the income from the field itself was 
nearly eight millions, which, considering the poverty 
of many of the native converts and the fact that the 
day’s wage in the East is often not more than twenty 
or twenty-five cents, is an enormous amount for them 
to raise and illustrates their spirit of self-denial. 

But we go from the intensive to the extensive re- 
sults of the work of foreign missions under God. The 
growth of the work, especially during the past fifty 
years, has been a marvel to the world. We have not 
the space to speak of the indirect results of missionary 
endeavor, some of which are discussed by Dr. Isaac 
T. Headland in his new book called “By-Products of 
Missions,’ but simply some of the direct results. In 
1887 there were but seven native Christians in Korea; 
there are over 200,000 to-day, and they are increasing 
at the rate of more than thirty per cent each year. 
The largest prayer meeting in the world, which has 
had an average attendance of 1,100 for years, is at 
Pyengyang, in that land. Fully one-sixth of all the 
Korean Christians are enrolled in Bible classes. A 
little over a century ago the first modern missionaries 
entered China. After fifty-five years of labor there 
were but fifty converts; now there are fully 175,000, 
and were the number of Protestant adherents included, 


Bee Thomas E. Watson “Exposed.” 


they would reach half a million. Some one has said 
that if the same ratio is maintained for thirty-five 
years (and religious movements generally gather mo- 
mentum as they roll along), at the end of that time a 
hundred million Chinese will have been gathered into 
the kingdom, or one-fourth of the largest empire in 
the world Christianized. So statistics might be given 
from other fields, but let it suffice to say that while the 
net gain for the past year at home has been two per 
cent, it has been twenty per cent in the foreign field— 
ten times as great. 

We quote here the views of some of the world’s 
most prominent men concerning the effect of foreign 
missions. These men have had the opportunity of 
coming in contact with the work on the field itself. 

Ambassador James Bryce, of England: ‘The longer 
one stays in India the more evidence one has that the 
future well-being of this country and, above all, the 
extension, permanence, and quality of British influ- 
ence depend largely upon the progress of missions.” 

Chulalongkorn, King of Siam: “American mission- 
aries have done more to advance the welfare of my 
country and people than any other foreign influence.” 

Gen. Sir Charles Warren, Governor of Natal: “For 
the preservation of peace between the colonists and 
natives one missionary is worth a battalion of soldiers.” 

Charles Darwin, the naturalist: “The success of the 
mission in Terra del Fuego is most wonderful and 
charms me, as I always prophesied utter failure. I 
could not believe that all the missionaries in the world 
could have made the Fuegians honest. The mission is 
a grand success.” 


Thomas E. Watson “Exposed.” 39 


Col. Alfred E. Buck, who was United States Minis- 
ter to Japan: “The influence of the missionaries has 
been worth more to Japan than all other foreign in- 
fluences combined.” 

William T. Stead, author and editor, who went down 
on the ill-fated Titanic: “They [the American mission- 
aries] are busy everywhere teaching, preaching, beget- 
ting new life in these Asiatic races.’ 

Sit Herbert Edwardes, Major General of the Eng- 
lish army in India: “I believe that if the [English were 
driven out of India to-morrow, Christianity would 
remain and triumph.” 

Babu Keshub Chunder Sen: “The missionaries have 
brought us to Christ. They have given us the highest 
code of Christian ethics, and their teaching and exam- 
vile have secretly influenced and won thousands of 
non-Christian Hindus.” 


CHARGE V1. 


THAT THE “BEAUTIFUL, REFINING, INSPIRING CODE” 
OF PAGAN MoRALITY PRODUCES FRUITS AS 
Goop AS THOSE OF CHRISTIANITY. 


Mr. Watson says: “Who is it that does not know 
that if these Eastern people will live up to their own 
religious creeds they will be good men and women— 
just as good as we are? Let us have no narrow-mind- 
ed foolishness about this. Ask any honest scholar, 
and he will tell you that these Eastern people had a 
beautiful, refining, and inspiring code of morality long 
before Christians met in convention to vote the adop- 
tion of these separate writings which constitute the 
Bible.” 

If Mr. Watson means by “just as good as we are”’ 
that the heathen living up to his “own religious creed” 
is just as good as he (Mr. Watson) is, Mr. Watson 
having used the editorial ‘we’ to indicate himself, we 
would not attempt to dispute it, as Mr. Watson pre- 
sumably knows more about himself than any one else 
does. But if he means, and this evidently is his mean- 
ing, that the morality of heathen people living accord- 
ing to their religious creeds is as good as the morality 
of Christians living according to theirs, we shall have 
to look into the statement before accepting it; but even 
if this were true, it would not justify Mr. Watson’s 
not taking the gospel to heathen nations, for Christ 
says, Be into all the world,” and Mr. Watson says, 

40 


Thomas E. Watson “Exposed.” 4! 


“I heartily favor foreign missions”; so here we have 
Watson versus Watson. 

But, apart from this, let us see what Dr. Arthur 
Judson Brown, a recognized authority, says ahout the 
morality of heathendom. He writes: “Most Asiatics 
have no sense of wrong regarding many of the mat- 
ters that we have been taught to regard as evil. They 
are untruthful and immoral. The first chapter of the 
Epistle to the Romans is still a literal description of 
heathendom, Its society is utterly rotten, and nowhere 
else in all Asia is it more licentious than in Japan, 
which is lauded as the most intelligent and advanced 
of all Asiatic nations. We do not forget that there 
is immorality in America, but here it is compelled to 
lurk in secret places. It is opposed not only by the 
Churches, but by civil law and public sentiment. In 
Asia vice is public and shameless, enshrined in the 
very temples. We saw the filthiest representations of 
it in the great Lama Temple, in the capital of China. 
India, which boasts of its ancient civilization, makes 
its most sacred places literally reek with vice.” This 
quotation shows, and quotation upon quotation could 
be piled up in this fashion, that the morality of hea- 
thendom is as black as midnight—infanticide, the deg- 

radation of woman, the most unspeakable vices prevail, 
while sutteeism, cannibalism, and many other horrible 
things have been banished through the influence of 
Christianity. 

Mr. Watson’s “beautiful, refining, and inspiring code 
of morality” does not seem to have accomplished much 
for these peoples in the long ages it has been at work. 
China has had Taoism 2,400 years, Confucianism 2,300 


42 Thomas E. Watson “Exposed.” 


years, Buddhism 1,800 years, Mohammedanism 1,200 
years; but we venture to say that she has made more 
progress in morality in the past hundred years, owing 
to the influence of the open Bible, whose leavening 
power has been felt throughout the entire empire, than 
in all the other years put together. 


CHARGE. VII. 


THAT PROTESTANTISM SHOWS AN INTOLERANT SPIRIT 
IN ESTABLISHING AND SUPPORTING MISSIONS 
IN PAPAL LANDS. 


In eloquent words our critic says: “With heroic 
toil and a great deal of expenditure of life and treas- 
ure, Catholic missionaries planted the Christian reli- 
gion in Mexico, in Central America, in South Amer- 
ica, and in the West Indies. For many and many a 
decade these have been Christian lands, domains over 
which the Cross reigned supreme. Yet at this time 
we find the Protestant world treating these Catholic 
countries as they treat India, Korea, Burma, China, 
and Japan.” 


Mr. Watson Answers Mr. Watson. 


At first blush this would look like inexcusable big- 
otry and a criminal misuse of men and money; but 
no one knows better than Mr. Watson why it is done, 
and we shall let Mr. Watson answer his own question. 
A few pages farther over in the same chapter from 
which we took the foregoing quotation appear these 
words, which are not less eloquent than the former 
ones: “Our forefathers knew what the Roman Cath- 
olic hierarchy was. Its record, reeking with crime 
and fraud, was familiar to them. Its enmity to popular 
rights, its foul partnership with tyrannical kings, its 
frightful atrocities of persecution, its devouring greed, 

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44 Thomas E. Watson “Exposed.” 


and its corrupting influence upon nations were too 
well known. The convents which had become broth- 
els, the shameless sale of licenses to commit sin, the 
peddling of indulgences which remitted sin, the mas- 
sacres encouraged by the Church, the ghastly and 
wholesale murders of the Inquisition, the broods of 
outcasts that clung around the knees of cardinals and 
popes, the monstrous impositions and hypocrisies by 
which the priests preyed upon the masses while hold- 
ing them down in the densest ignorance—victims of 
the nobility, of the king, and of the papal hierarchy— 
had excited a profound indignation in the men who 
framed our government.” If any further reason is 
needed why the pure gospel of Jesus Christ and the 
open Bible should be carried to Roman Catholic coun- 
tries, we refer our readers to a series of articles en- 
titled “The Roman Catholic Hierarchy,’ from Mr. 
Watson’s pen, which appeared in his magazine last 
summer, and which attracted widespread attention on 
account of the terrible charges he brought against 
' Romanism. If a tithe of what he writes is true, there 
can be no question that there is an imperative need for 
Protestant missions wherever that Church dominates 
a people. ; 

But we are persuaded that Mr. Watson knows this, 
for one of the reasons he urges for the withdrawal of 
missionaries from the foreign field is that we use all 
our resources to fight Romanism in the United States. 
Mr. Watson says, “Jf Roman Catholicism is tantamount 
to paganism, why not contest it in North America?” 
and, “What will it profit ourselves, or our country, or 
our God to redeem Jamaica and Cuba and South 


Thomas E, Watson “Exposed.” 45 


America from the Romish priests and lose to them 
our own republic?” Now, if, according to Mr. Wat- 
son, Catholicism is such an evil in this country, mod- 
ified as it is by the wholesome and restraining influ- 
ences of Protestantism, what must it be in countries 
where virtually it holds undisputed sway? So we 
have to go no farther than Mr. Watson to show the 
need of mission work in papal lands. 


CHARGE VIII. 


THAT THE CHURCH’sS FANATICAL Porticy Is DEstRUC- 
TIVE TO VITAL INTERESTS AT HOME, AND 
THAT THE MISSIONARIES SHOULD 
Be RECALLED. 


Mr. Watson’s Plan Opposed by Christ's Command and 
His Own Avowed Belief. 


ANOTHER reason Mr. Watson gives for recalling 
the missionaries is the conditions at home, which he 
speaks of as appalling. He devotes pages to a de- 
scription of conditions for which we have but space 
enough for a brief paragraph. He says: “Who does 
not know that the asylums, sanitariums, hospitals, and 
penitentiaries cover a multitude of sins? Who can be 
ignorant of the awful waste of human life in sweat- 
shops, rolling mills, mines, match factories, railway 
service, and packing establishments? Who does not 
know that in every one of our large cities there are 
dens of shame where women are held in bondage for 
the vilest purposes? Who can pick up a metropolitan 
paper without seeing NEWS ITEMS AND ADVER- 
TISEMENTS which reveal social conditions that 
wring one’s heart and almost stupefy one’s thoughts? 
Could we not CONCENTRATE OUR AIMS AND 
OUR ENERGIES AND REDEEM OUR OWN 
DANDRHER Sarr: 

We are not disposed to question Mr. Watson’s state- 
ments as to social conditions here—it would be diffi- 
cult to paint the picture too black—but he suggests 
the wrong remedy. Why? Because it is violative of 


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Thomas E, Watson “Exposed.” 47 


Christ’s command concerning foreign missions. Christ 
said: “Ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusa- 
lem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the 
uttermost part of the earth.’ No one is authorized to 
modify this command; Mr. Watson would not if he 
could, for he says: “I heartily favor foreign missions.” 

The disciples might have said: “Conditions are bad 
right here in Jerusalem, Judea, and Samaria, and let 
us concentrate our aims and energies and redeem our 
own land first.” But they did not do it, because the 
“uttermost part of the earth” is an integral part of 
the command. Undoubtedly there was just as much 
need of men and money in Jerusalem, Judea, and 
Samaria when Christ spoke these words to his dis- 
ciples as there is in New York, Chicago, Baltimore, 
Atlanta, and in the United States to-day. But before 
a single city of their own country was thoroughly 
evangelized, the disciples became missionaries of the 
Cross to the world. 


~ The Church’s Vitality Depends upon Her Expansion. 


But, apart from Christ’s bare command, the Church 
has found by experience that her vitality and power 
are in proportion to her missionary spirit, which is the 
Christian spirit; and if the Church were to narrow 
her vision and activities to local conditions, she would 
divorce herself from the source of power and become 
atrophied. It is only by cultivating the missionary 
spirit in its widest scope that the Church is enabled to 
do so much in the homeland. Jacob Riis’s oft-quoted 
saying is absolutely true: “Every dollar contributed 
to foreign missions releases ten dollars’ worth of en- 


48 Thomas E. Watson “Exposed.” 


ergy for dealing with the tasks at our own doors.” 
Dr. George R. Grose, formerly pastor of Grace Meth- 
odist Episcopal Church of Baltimore, in a sermon on 
“The Reaction of Christian Missions,” gives the philos- 
ophy of this in this language: “The largest realization 
of the presence of Christ is in the widest fulfillment of 
the command of Christ. In other words, there is an 
inevitable reaction of the mission of the Church upon 
the experience of the Church, of the work of the 
Christian upon the life of the Christian. The expan- 
sion of Christianity is absolutely essential to the vital- 
ity of Christianity. Just in proportion as our Chris- 
tian activity widens, our Christian experience deepens 
and strengthens. We cannot keep the unsearchable 
riches of Christ unless we give them forth to the 
world.”’ Therefore the remedy is not in neglecting 
the foreign field or doing not less there but more at 
home, but in doing more abroad that we may be able 
to do more at home. This is the “open sesame’ that 
will unlock the door to the largest thought and ac- 
tivity directed toward the home field. Since the de- 
velopment of so much interest in foreign missions 
during the past few years, there never has been so 
much interest shown by the Church in the problems 
at home, and there never have been so much thought 
and energy and money and time given to their solu- 


tion. eae 


The Comparative Littleness of the Church’s Work 
Abroad. 


Despite the increased zeal and intelligent activity in 
foreign missions that have marked the Church in re- 


Thomas E. Watson “Exposed.” 49 


cent times, what she is doing at present is pitifully | 
small. As to men: “For every missionary the Church 
sends abroad she holds fifty-four at home.” A mil- | 
lion Americans are engaged in distinctively religious 
work, a hundred and fifty thousand of them devoting 
themselves to it as a separate profession, and there is 
a Protestant minister for every 514 Protestants. But 
how is it in the foreign field? In South America 
there is only one ordained missionary for 154,000 
people; in Africa and India, for 186,000; in China, 
for 603,000; and in Siam, for 200,000 ; or in the whole 
non-Christian world there is one ordained minister 
for 183,000 people. 

Let us put this in a more concrete shape. Take 
Baltimore, with its nearly 600,000 people. Would it 
not be difficult even to imagine all the work concern- 
ing religion, Christian education, and hospital service 
being done by four men, assisted by perhaps fifty 
helpers just.out of heathendom? Yet this is a fair 
illustration of conditions as they exist to-day on an 
average in our mission fields across the sea. 

As to money: The yearly ageregate of large indi- 
vidual gifts to educational and charitable institutions 
is Over $150,000,000, two men having given for these 
purposes $200,000,000 in the past decade. But little 
if any of this money goes to foreign missions, as the 
total income of all the boards in this country does not 
exceed $12,000,000, and the great bulk of this comes 
in small sums from our congregations. The Church 
in America spends $290,000,000 upon herself and 
$12,000,000 on the foreign field, or for every ninety- 
four cents she expends upon herself she gives Six 


50 Thomas E. Watson “Exposed.” 


cents for the evangelization of the heathen. Accord- 
ing to the statistics we have before us, which are not 
strictly up-to-date, but will answer our purpose, as 
the ratios will remain unchanged, the income of South- 
ern Methodism is estimated to be $500,000,000. A 
tenth of this, which reasonably could be expected, 
would be $50,000,000; but the total income of the 
Church is only about $12,900,000, $12,000,000 of which 
we spend at home and $900,000 we give to save the 
heathen, our membership averaging in its gifts less 
than a two-cent postage stamp a week to save the 
heathen. The statistics concerning other Churches are 
similarly proportionate, some going above and some 
going below this average. 

We as a Christian country give $12,000,000 to save 
the heathen, but spend $25,000,000 for chewing gum, 
$290,000,000 for candy, $415,000,000 for soda water, 
$700,000,000 for tobacco, and $1,600,000,000 for in- 
toxicating liquors; or for every dollar we.give to save 
the heathen world, we spend $2 for chewing gum, $24 
for soda water, $58 for tobacco, and $133 for whisky. 
The foregoing facts and figures show that the Church 
has been playing at missions. She is now becoming 
thoroughly aroused. Our branch of the Church has 
set as her goal an average contribution to foreign 
missions of $2 per member and an increase in her 
missionaries to 1,600. When this goal is attained, 
there will be a tremendous proportionate advance in 
home missions. 


CHARGE TX. 


THAT THE INDEMNITY CLAIMS FOR DIAMONDS AND 
CosTLy CLOTHING BY THE PROTESTANT Muis- 
SIONARIES AFTER THE BOXER REBELLION 
WERE So GREAT AS TO PROVOKE 
Mucu HostiLe COMMENT, | 


Mr. Watson writes: “And when the Protestant 
missionaries to China filed their claims for damages 
on account of property destroyed in the Boxer riots 
the amount of diamonds and other jewelry listed caused 
bitterly sarcastic comment in the United States Senate. 
One member of the Committee on Foreign Relations 
remarked that ‘the wardrobes of the missionaries must 
have excelled those of the most extravagant actress on 
the stage to-day. Taking their claims at their face 
value, the diamonds alone must have been worth as 
much as the entire stock of the largest diamond dealer 
in New York City.’ I do not indorse the above state- 
ment, for it is a self-evident exaggeration. But there 
can be no doubt of the fact that the richness of the 
wardrobes and the abundance of jewels listed in the 
claims for damages did cause much critical and ironical 
remark. The Mission Board felt the force of these 
sarcasms and deputized two of the brethren to confute 
them. I have read the paper which the brethren ac- 
cordingly prepared, and I consider it a very weak 
document. In the first place, it does not give due 
weight to the words ‘at their face value, and, in the 
second place, it relies entirely upon averages and gen- 


€or) 


52 Thomas E. Watson “Exposed.” 


eralities. There is no specific denial whatever about 
the diamonds, Evidently, then, the wives of the mis- 
sionaries to China did file claims for rich wardrobes 
and for much jewelry.” 

A letter from Dr, Arthur J. Brown, of New York, 
Secretary of the Board of Foreign Missions of the 
Presbyterian Church in the United States and Chair- 
man of the Committee of Reference and Counsel, which 
reported upon that matter to the Fifteenth Conference 
of Foreign Mission Boards in the United States and 
Canada, says: “We have been almost sorry since that 
we paid any attention to it, as the charge of Mr. 
Watson was so preposterous as to deceive no one 
except those who are so obsessed by prejudice that 
they are prepared to believe anything.” Dr. Brown 
sent us, in addition to the letter, a copy of the report 
covering the whole affair. As we understand it, the 
statement Mr. Watson speaks of was not made in the 
Senate, but by a member of the Committee on Foreign 
Relations to a reporter of a New York newspaper, so 
the reporter said; but no Senator could be found who 
was willing to assume the responsibility of fathering 
the remark. Now, as to the truth regarding the loss 
of jewelry and wardrobes, the State Department of 
our government, through Hon. Robert Bacon, As- 
sistant Secretary of State, wrote to Dr. Brown: “There 
were no claims on account of jewelry and wardrobes 
large enough to attract attention.” In the presence of 
these facts we shall leave it to our readers as to whether 
there was any justification in making such a charge. 


eel 


(OM 1/8 Rd dD, 


THAT WASTEFULNESS, GLUTTONY, AND WINE-DRINK- 
ING MARKED THE LAYMEN’s MISSIONARY 
BANQUET IN NEw York. 


No Wine at the Laymen’s Banquet in New York. 

WE shall notice, in closing, a statement which Mr. 
Watson has made respecting the laymen’s banquet in 
New York. With a flourish of rhetoric he says? ‘‘The 
amount of money thrown away on the elaborate ban- 


_ quet which the Laymen’s Movement provided for itself 


at the Hotel Astor, in New York City, must have con- 
sumed thousands of dollars, and those Pharisees, hyp- 


_ ocrites, unnatural egoists sat there under blazing lights 


“he 


hour after hour, stuffing and guzzling and/smoking, 
consuming the costliest food, the costliest wines, and 
the costliest cigars, while a few blocks off cold and 
starvation were beating down their victims.” ~. 

The money that was “thrown away” on that ban- 
quet was “thrown away” just as seed corn is “thrown 
away,” and we make bold to say that none are more 
generous in relieving the victims of cold and starva- 
tion than those same “Pharisees” and “hypocrites” who 
were at that missionary banquet. But serving wine at 
a banquet of this character is indefensible, it matters 
not what missionary advancement may have been made. 
To preclude the possibility of any uncertainty on this 
point, we addressed a note to J. Campbell White, of 
New York, one of the great leaders of the Movement, 
and here is his reply: 


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54 Thomas E. Watson “Exposed.” 


Dear Mr. Harris: The dinner of the Laymen’s Missionary 
Movement at the Hotel Astor had about 1,600 of the leading 
Christian men of New York and vicinity in attendance. It 
was on one of the very worst nights of the whole winter, with 
nearly a foot of wet snow on the ground and the wind blowing 
fearfully. There was not a drop of wine anywhere about the 
dinner tables. It may be that a few men who had their own 
cigars in their pockets smoked them during the evening; but 
if so, it was the exception and not the rule. On all sides, as 
the meeting closed, men were saying that it was the most 
powerful presentation of Christian missions that they ever 
heard. The whole impression of the meeting was profoundly 
spiritual. 

Very sincerely yours, J. CAMPBELL WHITE. 

In this case, as in others, we have put facts against 
Mr. Watson’s rhetoric, and the rhetoric always falls 


before the logic of facts. 


A Cloud of Witnesses. 


In conclusion, we give below the deepest convictions 
of prominent men who have spent some time in mission 
fields and have made a study of conditions there, some 
of whom were much prejudiced against foreign mis- 
sions when they went to the Orient and had as little 
sympathy with the system as practiced by the Church 
to-day as has Mr. Watson. We cull these testimonials 
from a large number, all of which could not be given 
for want of space. They come from men occupying 
all stations in life, giving a concensus of opinion that 
is little short of being marvelous. 

Robert Louis Stevenson, the traveler and author, 
writes: “I conceived a great prejudice against missions 
in the South Seas, and I had no sooner come there than 
that prejudice was first reduced and then annihilated. 


Thomas E. Watson “Exposed.” 55 


Those who deblaterate against missions have only one 
thing to do, to come and see them on the spot. They 
will see a great deal of good done, and I believe, if 
they be honest persons, they will cease to complain of 
mission work and its effect.” 

Hon. F. S, Stratton, collector of the port of San 
Francisco, follows in a similar statement and Says: 
“I went out opposed to the missionary movement in 
China—at least I had no sympathy with it. All the 
stock arguments against it are familiar to me. I, 
however, have been converted by what I have seen. 
America leads all others in philanthropic and religious 
work in the Orient, and the results, while slow, are, 
in my opinion, sure, and the foundation is being: splen- 
didly laid.” 

Mrs. Isabella Bird Bishop, traveler and author, 
writes: “I any a convert to missions through seeing 
missions and the need of them. Some years ago I 
took no interest whatever in the condition of the 
heathen and perhaps had imbibed some of the unhal- 
lowed spirit. But the missionaries, by their life and 
character and by the work they are doing wherever I 
have seen them, have produced in my mind such a 
change and such an enthusiasm (as I might almost 
express it) in favor of Christian missions that I cannot 
go anywhere without speaking about them and trying 
to influence others in their favor who may be as in- 
different as I was.” 

Henry M. Stanley, the explorer, whose opinion con- 
cerning missions before he went to Africa is well 
known, upon his return said in answer to the question, 
“Do you consider the efforts of foreign missionaries 


56 Thomas E. Watson “Exposed.” 


really a success?”’: “Yes; most emphatically. It can 
be shown to-day as something marvelous. The story 
of the Uganda missionary enterprise is an epic poem.” 

Dr. John Henry Barrows, President of Oberlin Col- 
lege and Haskell Lecturer to India, sums up the result 
of his observation as follows: “I have seen enough of 
the actual working of the Christian missions in Asia 
to fill me with enthusiasm and triumphant hopeful- 
ness.” 

Prof. W. M. Ramsey, archeologist, says: “Begin- 
ning with a prejudice against the work of mission- 
aries, I was driven by the force of facts and experience 
to the opinion that the mission has been the strongest 
as well as the most beneficent influence in causing the 
movement toward civilization.” 

Phillips Brooks, the loved and learned Episcopal 
Bishop of Massachusetts, recommended this recipe to 
disbelievers in the missionary propaganda: “Tell your 
friends who do not believe in foreign missions (and I 
am sure there are a good many such) that they do not 
know what they are talking about, and that three 
weeks’ sight of mission work in India would convert 
them wholly.” 

Hon. W. B. Reid, United States Commissioner, 
gives his testimony: “I went to the East with no en- 
thusiasm as to missionary enterprise. I came back 
with a fixed conviction that missionaries are the great 
agencies of civilization. I could not have advanced 
one step in the discharge of my duties, could not have 
read or written or understood one word of correspond- 
ence on treaty stipulation but for the missionaries.” 

General Wagner, Austrian officer and drillmaster 


Thomas E. Watson “Exposed.” 57 


in the Persian army, sends this message to our coun- 
try: “Tell the Church in America that I have seen the 
missionaries and studied their work in Persia. I know 
about it. It is not a human work; it is angel work.” 

Maj. Edwin H. Conger, United States Minister to 
China and Mexico, gives his voice in behalf of the 
value of the work of the missionaries. He says: “For 
seven years I have been intimately associated with 
your colleagues in the missionary work in Chinagra 
body of men and women who, measured by the sacri- 
fices they make, the trials they endure, and the risks 
they take, are veritable heroes.” 

Sir William Matworth Young, K. C. S. I., Lieuten- 
ant Governor of Punjab, India, speaks as follows: “As 
a business man speaking to business men, I am pre- 
pared to say that the work which has been done by 
missionary agencies in India excels in importance all 
that has been done (and much has been done) by the 
British government in India since its commencement.” 

Sir Richard Temple, Lieutenant Governor of Ben- 
gal, adds his testimony; “I have governed 105,000,000 
of the inhabitants of India, and I have been concerned 
with 85,000,000 more in my official capacity. I have 
thus had acquaintance with or have been authentically 
informed regarding nearly all the missionaries of the 
societies laboring in India within the last thirty years. 
And what is my testimony regarding these men? They 
are most efficient.” 

Archbishop Farrar expresses this judgment: “To 
sneer at missionaries, a thing so cheap and so easy to 
do, has always been the passion of libertines and cynics 
and worldlings. So far from having failed, there is 


58 Thomas E. Watson “Exposed.” 


no work abroad which has received so absolute, so 
unprecedented a blessing. To talk of missionaries as 
a failure is to talk at once like an ignorant and like a 
faithless man.” 

Rev. John Watson (“Ian Maclaren”), not the Hon. 

homas E., says: “We second-rate fellows here at 
home are the militia—a very respectable lot of hard- 
working men, but just militia. They are the fighting 
line; theirs are the medals with the bars; they are our 
Victoria Cross men.” 

Prof. Louis Agassiz, the famous naturalist, thus 
expresses his convictions: “Few are aware how much 
we owe to them [the missionaries] both for their in- 
telligent observation of facts and for their collecting 
of specimens. We must look to them not a little for 
aid in our efforts to advance future science.” Pro- 
fessor Agassiz, as do several others, refers to the by- 
products of missions, which necessarily go with their 
primary work—the evangelization of the world. 

Hon. Charles Denby, for thirteen years United 
States Minister to China, speaks of a gentleman who 
made a bitter attack upon missionaries one day in 
conversation with him. Dr. Denby asked him if he 
had ever visited or inspected any missionary com- 
pound. He said he had never done so, and Dr. Denby 
added: “I do not believe that the tourist or author 
treats the missionaries fairly. The world loves sensa- 
tionalism, and an attack made on any established in- 
stitution or on any sentiment that humanity reveres 
attracts more attention than a calm, unimpassioned 
defense of the same establishments or ideas.” 

We close with an excerpt from George, King of 


Thomas E. Watson “Exposed.” 59 


England, to Bartholomew Ziegenbalg and John Ernest 
Gudler, of Tranquebar: “Reverend and Beloved: 
Your letters dated the 2oth of January of the present 
year were most welcome to us, not only because the 
work undertaken by you of converting the heathen to 
the Christian truth doth by the grace of God prosper, 
but also because in this our kingdom such a laudable 
field for the promotion of the gospel prevails.’ 


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